Yeah, I think people are too quick to forget how bad it really was back then. My Dad is a waste systems (water, trash, recycling, kind of all of it) engineer and I remember him bringing home as a souvenir a bottle of Lake Erie water that had been labeled like bottled drinking water, but included warnings of all the…

Agreed. I think she, as well as all those who acted as surrogates for Trump, deserve disapproval and blame for his victory, but the gendered insults are terrible. No one deserves that type of name calling, especially when we can go for reasonable ones:

True crime entertainment does seem to be having a moment, with the people vs ok, making a murderer, etc. I really hate all of it. Serial and making a murderer had some points about injustice in our legal system, but both were largely enjoyed for the drama and mystery. It just makes me uncomfortable. There was a piece…

I saw a B2 flyover at the rose parade this year and I have to say, it was awesome. I can see wanting one of those, especially for our 14 yr old in a 70 yr old body.

Def. I used to think W. Bush was the asking embodiment of this saying, but he is starting to look like a gentleman and a scholar relative to Ms Devos.

One of two nominees usually go down for something like this that pops up in the vetting, I really thought this would bring her down.

She is a true believer. I agree it is strange that she is so invested in a system with which she has had so little direct contact. The only thing I can imagine is that it doesn’t really take that much effort to be politically active via bank draft. I wonder what will happen at DoEd? As far as I can tell, she has never…

There are some cases where people deserve the benefit of the doubt and to be given a chance. Devos as secretary of education does not. She infuriates me, and the basic dishonesty and balls out gall of saying she would be in that chair without sprinkling hundreds of millions of dollars on Republicans is unbelievable.…

Yep, I mixed up my Dakota’s.

THis press junket must be truly awful. There is a reason there are so many quotes of Dornan saying he isn’t into BDSM, he has been asked to discuss his sexual preferences hundreds of times by strangers. I think he could be much cooler about it, and not be quite so contemptuous of theculture he is profiting handsomely…

I think I heard this story too, if I recall correctly it was from the editor of Spy magazine who coined the name “short fingered vulgarian” for Trump. Trumpwould send picture she of his huge hand for years after that, with note she or signed in gold sharpie. You know, to make it classy.

YEAh, someone called on this for the first time at seventy has probably been doing this for a looong time.

Yes, they have not been impressive thus far. I think there are moments in the past where they have joined together in opposition to excessive control by administrations, including during the Obama administration. Dan Rather pointed out that the current condition, with an administration that is actively hostile towards…

moving the press out of the west wing and into the OEOB also revokes their access to West wing staffers. The pass you get for oeob doesn’t necessarily get you in, and those casual conversations are a major source of news. The press corp is going to have to be unified in their opposition to this, because this is…

I bet it helps that Beck Bennet is thirty years his junior. He looks pretty good shirtless.

Senator Boomer! I like it for Booker!

We’re going to see a ton of these very pained looking shows of support over the next few months. Everyone is trying to figure out how to effectively manage or minimize the damage Trump can do to discretionary programs run by the federal government. I think it isn’t also very hard to turn down a request for a meeting…

Congratulations on both the marriage and potential house! My suggestion is to really set aside time for the process of looking/buying. I went to a bunch of open houses over the course of months before I was ready to buy, and sorted out my wants/hates/emotional reaction to having to write a check for tens of thousands…

I only know how my universities did it, but speakers were usually invited. I think Yiannopolis’ conduct at UW-Milwaukee, where he initiated a harassment campaign against a tranwoman who was a student attending his talk, is a legitimate reason to disqualify him as a speaker. If a bunch of dumbass jerks decide they want…

Good god. I believe that speakers representing all points of view should be invited to universities to speak, but are either of these people original, provocative thinkers? Or are they modern day shock jocks without the self awareness or intellect of a Howard Stern?